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Suicidal Man Jumps Out of Apartment and Lands on 5-Year-Old Girl

A suicidal man killed himself by jumping off the 11th floor of an apartment building -- and tragically he landed on a 5-year-old girl who was walking with her parents.
The incident happened in Seoul, South Korea, a country that reportedly
has one of the highest rates of suicide. The man did not leave a note
though he was being treated for depression. The little girl just
happened to be directly below him when he took his plunge.

He landed directly on the girl, and she was taken to the hospital with a skull fracture, but she later died. Tragic.

I can't imagine what it must be like to be this girl's parents -- to
be walking with your 5-year-old, and then suddenly someone literally
falls out of the sky right on top of her. Horrible.

I sympathize with people who want to end their lives.
Although it causes a huge amount of pain to those they leave behind, I
will not pretend to understand the despair that engulfs people who
commit suicide. I wish all people who do so would think of the impact
their decision will have on friends and family, especially children, but
people who are that depressed often think the world and everyone in it
would be better off without them, and they truly believe that.

But too many times we also hear stories of people using a gun to
commit suicide, and the bullet goes through the wall and into someone
else's home. You also hear about people taking or trying to take their
loves ones with them -- especially children. In March, a baby survived an 8-story fall after his mom strapped him to her chest
and jumped out her apartment window. Jumpers who take people out on the
ground aren't that uncommon either. This is why it's one of the worst
ways to take your life.

I'm not going to give anyone advice about how to kill themselves
while thinking about the safety of others. Instead, I just going to
encourage people thinking about ending it all to get help. Suicide is a
permanent solution to a temporary problem.

This man will never know that he ended an innocent young life
when he decided to end his own; and destroyed the life of two adult
strangers who did nothing to him. But hopefully others thinking of doing
the same thing will see this story and reconsider what they might be
planning.

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